Neil A. Solomon, MD, President, NAS Consulting;
Gordon Mosser, MD, Associate Medical Director, The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement;
Diane Stewart, Senior Manager, Pacific Business Group on Health

      This session will discuss how many local clinical redesign efforts have difficulty spreading their methods across a community and tend to fade over time. Several larger communities have now formed regional collaborativesin order to provide political support, technical expertise, outcomes reporting, financial incentives, and other infrastructure to enable lasting change. Common attributes among leading regional collaboratives will be discussed in detail using two specific examples. Strategies to build a regional collaborative model, community motivators, stakeholders, funding models, and other key elements in designing a regional collaborative will also be presented.
      After this presentation you will be able to:

• Assess whether a community is ready to develop a regional collaborative.
• Describe the benefits of a regional collaborative, especially inrecruiting other clinical and business leaders to participate.
• Develop a list of regionally appropriate priorities for your own regional collaborative.